The Amazon KINDLE

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Does anyone know anyone who has bought an Amazon Kindle?


I like the idea, so I looked at it on Amazon... but it costs $359!!!
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You can get small computers for that that do the same thing, but are computers. (Those little educational things.)

You can download any book from the NY Times Best Seller list for $9.99, but I don't know how many years it would take me before that would be worth it financially. (The ease might be worth it, but you can't give the book to a friend after you're done.)

I was just wondering if anyone knows anyone who has bought the thing.


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I have an app for my iphone that I like. It's called Stanza, and while it doesn't offer any new books to purchase there are plenty of classics (and its free).

Anyway I guess this is technically a hijack, but if you have an iphone its an option ...
 
My wife has one and loves it. She uses it constantly. She probably reads more periodicals and newspapers this way that she would the "old fashioned" way. In fact, I know she wouldn't read as much the "old fashioned" way.

The jury is out for me on it. I think it's a good concept, but seeing how I am cheap, I don't know that the cost/benefit is in my favor. FYI - Boy Genius has info on the Kindle 2.

All in all, if you are on the go a lot, like my wife, the Kindle is very convenient.
 
The executives at my company go overseas to Iraq and Afghanistan and stay for weeks. There isn't much to do, so they have to bring a lot of stuff to read. My boss loves it because it saves her from having to carry a heavy weigh in books. I'd never heard of it before lunch this past Monday.
 
If you travel at all, it's great because it saves the weight of a book. And unlike a computer, its screen is not backlit, so you don't have the eye-strain that goes with reading a computer monitor for hours at a time.
 
In 2 years, slate PCs will be all the rage and you'll be able to buy something that looks sort of like that and will also bury your current laptop in performance. $500-1500.
 
I think you can also send any type of electronic document to Amazon (Word, Adobe, etc.) to Amazon, and they will convert it and send it electronically to your Kindle for free. cool way to read work materials while traveling.

Also very cool that you can buy a book on Amazon for your kindle and it could be transmitted to you within minutes. and you don't need a internet connection. I believe its uses the sprint EVDO network.

The cost is keeping me from buying one. Hopefully the 2nd version will be cheaper.
 
Have had one for a year and it is great. If you read alot, the ROI does not take long to achieve.
- New book: $25 hardback vs Kindle Book: $9.99.
- Daily WSJ delivery: $21/month vs Daily WSJ download to Kindle: $10/month.
- Most magazines $2 or less on Kindle

And you can send yourself Word document and .pdf's to be downloaded to the Kindle.
 
How does reading the WLJ on kindle or downloaded vary from the online version. Is it much eariesr to read? Is it more like the paper version?

That alone may make the Kindle worth while.
 
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